cavemanfl Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Found in a creek bank in Hardee county Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ynot Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 whale tooth. 2 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf89 Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 +1 for whale tooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemanfl Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 10 minutes ago, ynot said: whale tooth. Any idea the sort of whale tooth it maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 A toothed whale. Sorry, but I am not that well versed in whales. @Boesse is much better at it. 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 It looks like a Basilosaur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 11 hours ago, Bone guy said: It looks like a Basilosaur. I have never seen a confirmed find of a basilosaurus tooth found in Florida and certainly not in a surface creek in South Central Florida. I would dearly love to be proven wrong. In this thread, Bobby identified a similar but smaller tooth, found 30-35 feet below present land surface in a phosphate mine, as a Large kentriodontid-grade dolphin tooth. The 3+ inch size of this @cavemanfl tooth makes me pause. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/86852-interesting-fossils/&tab=comments#comment-941713 2 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemanfl Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 The area around the creek bank is about 12' from surface land to the water. In the land above the creek you can find fossils in the hog rooting. I thought it was crazy hogs were rooting up dugong ribs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 10:00 PM, Bone guy said: It looks like a Basilosaur. Quote Range: Three species of Basilosaurus are known, and specimens have been discovered in fossil sites in the southeastern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee), ........................ Author: Robert Boessenecker and Jonathan Geisler https://www.nyit.edu/medicine/basilosaurus_spp# Hmmm. I have been searching the net for references to Florida: Found this above. May have to retract that statement about no evidence of Basilosaurus in Florida. Still searching for a paper that shows the telltale teeth.Some reference to Crystal River. 2 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Hah, I wrote that article about 7-8 years ago. Uhen (2013: Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin) in his review of the North American basilosaurid record shows a number of basilosaurid occurrences in Florida, including Basilosaurus cetoides and Basilosaurus sp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 I can say only that the preservation and the area makes it more likely that it's a Bone Valley whale tooth (one of the many sperm whale relatives ) than one of the ancient (Eocene) whales. You get Late Eocene shark teeth like Carcharocles auriculatus in the Suwannee and a couple of other rivers in northern Florida. Among those teeth whale stuff is only very rarely found. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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